“Hello arh, I am chicken. How do you use technology? I am scared and technophobic”
This is Yi Xian the elephant.
These were all done on a laptop touchpad, MSPaint!
Advanced Literature PPT Slide Design August 27, 2008
Theme was City VS Country Life from E.M. Forster’s Howards End
Will Murai August 17, 2008
http://www.willmurai.com/
http://whmurai.deviantart.com/
“Valentine” 2007
I first found Will Murai while Stumbling one day. One I landed on his website I have been very wowed by his work. He works digitally and his paintings are beautifully rendered, detailed and seamless on the whole. His works are realistic yet stylishly stylised and sometimes with an almost surreal air to them. He works with illustration and graphic design and COMICS!!!! (cannot hold in the joy) but I havent seen much of his work anywhere. Haha!
I really love “Valentine” for its effective composition, overall mood and how every element in the picture comes together to tell a story. A girl is standing in the forground slanting towards a window on which she draws a heart. A young man is opposite, obviously smitten. The girl is wearing leopard prints, seductive and flirtatious, and the hearts she draws are almost casual. One cannot tell if she truly loves the young man, or if she is just taking delight in knowing she can make him love her back.
The colours seem to indicate a very much modern apartment in which the girl is standing and a victorian building opposite. The textural details give the building age and a certain timeless kind of classy. The background is pale blue sky with fluffy white clouds drifting idlly by. I love the details on the girl’s skin, frekles that makes her all the more beautiful and realistic in the final piece of work. The use of complementary colours for toning is also something that I’ve been trying to work with in my own work.
“What’s Yo Flava?”
It’s so simple, so surreal and a little purposeless but it manages to capture the essence of the title, What’s Yo Flava? I particularly like the background and the light gradient. Another truly beautiful work.
In here Murai displays capability for digital design other than rendering. His oriental “Ninja Schoolgirl” captures the eastern roots he is trying to portray, the lotus flower, straight dark hair and numerous other elements that reflect the East appropriately. A point to note is that its placement on the shirt is far too small and does not show off the design to its utmost beauty, so that wasn’t well done. I’d rather have put it on the back in a larger size.
“Grand Piano”
“I wanted this piece to be the most elegant i have ever made. I could try some new stuff in this image, like using a 3d software to compose some objects.”
Out of all his works, this one is my favourite. It has a certain musical rhythm and classiness to it all, yet the woman is sexy while the pianist is in control. It has chemistry between the girl and the pianist/piano (almost as though they are one) Two windows at the left lets shafts of light through, bathing the grand piano and the two characters in a surreal light. It’s like a moment frozen in time, capturing the beauty of the instance.
Once again the details are impeccable, up to the scoresheet and the reflections on the floor. While the pianist wears sneakers, a striped shirt and some jeans, the woman’s hair is perfectly curled and she arches one high-heeled leg. Whether she is dancing, singing, modelling, waiting impatiently for the scruffy man, she’s an enigma, as well as the entire picture in itself.
CLSIA Comic Book Cover August 8, 2008
I didn’t submit the product in the end, but this was the cover for a series about th little bear, set in air-polluted Shanghai. Made with markers all bought in Shanghai.
Graduation Magazine Design August 5, 2008
Self explanatory. It’s changed since then, but not much. It was one of those things I procrastinated till the last few days. Doing it for 4/13 was just… a mix of emotions and to-dos, like I can never do enough to express how wonderful my class is. Which other bunch of people wholeheartedly volunteer to stay in a stuffy haunted house, or manage to top the entire school twice for Funfair? 
ILU413! (L)
Biological Drawing of a Prawn August 2, 2008
Not the final version but I’m very proud of my final biological drawing in NY! D: So pretty right! Come pare with Sarahlim’s prawn here:
http://peabo4eva.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/dsc02251.jpg
